We. Pit. A set of 2 books. Zamyatin E., Platonov A.

The kit consists of the best samples of the early Soviet anti -utopia, it includes Evgeny Zamyatin’s novels “We” (1920) “Pokilvan” (1930) Andrei Platonov.

“We”

Eugene Eugene Zamyatin (1884-1937)-one of the most famous writers of the 20s of the last century, an innovator with an amazingly wide creative range-grotesque satirical works, fairy tales-accumulations, stories from the life of the Russian province, fantastic novel.

"" We ”is the world of the XXXII century, where the names are replaced with letters and numbers, people eat oil refining products, the state controls everything, including the intimate life of citizens, and the presence of a person in a soul is a reason for a visit to a psychotherapist.

"Pit"

Andrei Platonov accepted the revolution immediately and without the slightest doubt. He then did everything at once: reclamation, electrical engineering, party work. And he wrote, embarrassed - because the passion for the word did not die with the advent of the revolution - he was not sure that art should disappear, he was obliged to change the "real enthusiasm of life." He limited himself, ashamed of his love for the word, as a sin. And from this, his word became especially solid, dense, material, the phrase seemed heavy and clumsy, as if thought was still born, “measured” for reality.

the works of Andrei Platonov were not appreciated during the life of the writer: they were plunged by ideological criticism, most of them were published only after his death, including the novel “Pokilvan”, grotesque, before a surreal vision, showing cruelty and showing cruelty and The meaninglessness of a totalitarian system that is not able to build a socially fair and happy society, while reflecting many of the everyday realities of the Stalin era.